Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer. Rembrandt. Rather than be illuminated by a phone screen, I’ll just let someone chiaroscuro all over my face.
Today’s world has been greatly shaped by the emergence of smartphones and the internet. What is a person to do when those same technologies cause distress and interfere with human engagement? My personal tale of transitioning to an analog lifestyle.
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The Bathers, Dieppe, 1902. Walter Richard Sikert. Taking those first steps into cool water may be uncomfortable but humans are adept at acclimatization.
In a scientific publishing scheme run amok, what are the principles that are being adopted by forward-thinking journals?
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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Joseph Wright ‘of Derby.’ The proverbial canary in the coal mine is dead.
An outline of how the primary means of scientific communication has been corrupted and perverted by capitalist ideology.
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Ruins of Rome. Giovanni Paolo Panini. Rome circa 298.456239 kelvin.
We use time as the fourth co-ordinate. Could we replace our co-ordinates with measures of physical parameters? Probably not.
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The Falling Star. James Hamilton Hay.
In recent years, suicide within the Toronto subway system has become more common. An unspoken ritual in which many Torontonians have participated, what is the most compassionate way to deal with “injuries at track level.”
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